Cvetana Quotes & Sayings

I crossed my arms. "You're saying I'm not usually polite?"
He staged a sigh. "It's amazing how quickly I can regret saying something with you ... "
"I'm polite. I'm very fucking polite. — Lani Diane Rich

There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness. — Pope John Paul II

You thought you'd never give up your vocation, a voice whispered inside me. You thought you'd never even consider it. But you've met the one man who could change your mind. He is your perfect complement. He is Cathal to your Clodagh; he is Bran to your Liadan. No wonder you conjured up those images. No wonder they make you weep. — Juliet Marillier

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped. — Stand Watie

I am interested in the ordinary sort of threat. I know that people are interested in things like serial killers and what have you, but actually, those aren't the sort of crimes that really happen very much. The sort of crimes that happen tend to be more of a domestic nature and quite banal, but the psychology behind them is always fascinating. — Paula Hawkins

It had been a long time since I felt the fragrance of summer: the scent of the ocean, a distant train whistle, the touch of a girl's skin, the lemony perfume of her hair, the evening wind, faint glimmers of hope, summer dreams.
But none of these were the way they once had been; they were all somehow off, as if copied with tracing paper that kept slipping out of place."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing — Haruki Murakami

[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong. — Erick Erickson

When you become an animal, a vulture, in the ghetto, as I had become, you enter a world of animals and vultures. It becomes truly the survival of only the fittest. — Malcolm X

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives. — Rick Perlstein

WHEN YOU HEAR that now ubiquitous but dread phrase, 'I find that offensive', you know you're being told to shut up. It — Claire Fox

When in doubt," the mage Numair Salmalin had taught the pages, "Shoot the wizard. — Tamora Pierce

Only when you die will you cease to feel ridiculous. — Upamanyu Chatterjee

I'd be happy just to go back to about 1990," said Scott quietly. "The way we all were then. — Tim Powers